...or a loving Father?
2007-11-09 07:37:09 · 11 answers · asked by Shawn B 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So you all deny your bible when it says he requires burnt and bloody offerings. Cherry pickers.
2007-11-09 07:50:51 · update #1
In a class on Martyrdom in the three Abrahamic traditions, we talked heavily about the burning of flesh, its odor, and innocent blood...this is what I understand from the professor who taught the course and has done research on odor and scent in the Old Testament:
The God of the Old Testament loves his followers but can be very brash and vain. He makes over 600 laws for his believers to follow and often gets angry if someone isn't living by his code. Therefore, there are different sacrifices a person could make based on their sin, and at diferent times of the year.
Burning of innocent flesh, in the form of lambs, etc. served as a SOOTHING ODOR to God...So basically: The scent of burning innocent flesh calmed him down when his follower sinned. And you wanted to calm him down, otherwise terrible things could happen. They lived a harsh lifestyle - drought, war with the Romans, etc..so the last thing you wanted to happen was more bad stuff.
According to Judaism, the Israelites "slay for Him all day long." To worship and live in God is to suffer. Whenever the words "fear God" come up in the Old Testament, we learned this more means "awe of God" not the great white fear that paralyzes people. So to suffer for Him is to live by the harsh laws he provided the followers. To love him is to live by his laws...and some times to die for them.
So according to their faith and book, he is a loving father who like any father some times needs to be calmed - in this case, with burning meat.
2007-11-09 08:24:09 · answer #1 · answered by SisterSue 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Total misunderstanding of scripture. Do you know why blood sacrifices are required? Not because God "savors the smell of burnt flesh" or because He enjoys the "taste of innocent blood."
By that definition, God would have enjoyed watching His Son butchered and hung on the cross...and indeed, wish that He'd been burned as well.
God demands something serious in place of our sins. The blood sacrifices were awful - but our sin was so grave that death was required. But we still kept sinning, and more and more innocent creatures died. In the end, the most innocent One of all - the Holy Christ - had to offer His own innocent blood so that we could live.
Time after time, God tried to bring us to Him. His patience and grace were enduring, but we continued to fight Him. In the end, because of His amazing love, He sacrificed Himself so that we could live. It is the act of "a loving Father."
2007-11-09 08:03:50 · answer #2 · answered by TWWK 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, if such a god as you described actually existed, it would be a monster.
Fortunately, God is not like that at all.
I take it that you consider fire fighters also to be monsters if they aren't able to rescue someone?
And what about doctors who lose a patient? Does that make them a monster as well?
And what about the police officer who isn't quite able to catch a criminal to bring him to justice. Does that make him a monster, also?
If you want to burn in hell, you go right ahead, but don't go blaming anybody for your own personal choice but yourself. You COULD choose Life (Jesus said "I am Life.") and get a free, undeserved pardon, but - hey - then you couldn't nonsensically blame God, now could you?
So, you will continue in your rebellion and you will continue to commit high treason against God, usurping His rightful authority and trying to sit on His throne; and you will receive the due punishment for said rebellion and high treason.
But when you actually stand before God, and you see the Truth, the infinite Love pouring out of Him, the nail scars in his hands, the tears in His eyes, you'll then know you've been wrong all along, but too late to do anything about it.
Repent while you still have time. Right now, He wants to be your Savior, and deliver you from your sins and their eternal consequences. But the offer only lasts while you live in this present life. Afterwards, He must be your judge! ("How can we escape if we neglect so great a salvation?")
2007-11-09 07:45:15 · answer #3 · answered by no1home2day 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The significance of a human is in the actions one takes.
How much more so is this true of a deity, and even more so of THE deity. Yet actions are understood in terms of the written word instead of the words being understood in terms of the actions.
I have sent this balm for all the flaming that will occur.
2007-11-09 09:44:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A quote From The Great Founder Of the Protestants Martin Luther
I look upon God no better than a scoundrel God is stupid
2007-11-09 07:43:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Itt would be all of us burning, if Jesus Christ did not go to the cross, God did this to save us, People that come to God don't have to go through this, instead of putting down something and trying to convince others to be burned why don't you go to Jesus and get saved, so you can actually be helping plant a good seed, and not creating people to turn from the only One that can save them, It would not feel good, to know that you turned people away.
2007-11-09 07:41:43 · answer #6 · answered by Lynn C 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
If you read the Bible, you would know that God hates hands that shed innocent blood, and He is not willing that ANY should perish.
2007-11-09 07:45:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Well,.... lol... He's God. The Almighty. The Rightous. Judgement. Fair. And he loves us.
2007-11-09 07:40:17 · answer #8 · answered by birdee20 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
wow talk about a lot of people missing the point...
2007-11-09 07:44:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
depends if you looking at him from hell or hanging out with him in heaven
2007-11-09 07:40:03 · answer #10 · answered by jesussaves 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋